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KJV

2 Esdras 8:59

For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought:

Parallel Translations

WEBView canonical →
For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men should be destroyed,
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
For as the thing that I haue spoken of, is made readie for you: so is thirst and peine prepared for them: for God wolde not that man shulde perish:
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha